#lemans24hours

The 24 Hours Of Le Mans 2023

The race is going on and after 5 hours I have to say that I was looking forward to this race this year and thought it will be great, but really? It isn't great, it is the best race I've seen in... I don't know, since the 90's? The best Le Mans ever? Something like that. So many lead changes in the Hypercar class (and so also the overall classement), cars from Toyota, Ferrari, Porsche, Jota Porsche, Cadillac, Peugeot, all of them were already leading the race for a longer time and it is so close that it is unpredictable who will win. Unfortunately, a few minutes ago the leading JOTA Porsche crashed into the wall in the Porsche corners and is now getting repaired at the pits, so Ferrari is in front now. The weather also was very... let's say interesting. With heavy rain around 18:45 local time. Unfortunately it led to a safety car priod that lasts almost one and a half hour and was way too conservative, because the slicks were already the best tires again as the Safety Car ended.

This item is from Autoart at scale 18, the design is exactly the same as the one in Gran Turismo. The white color shows that the car model is calm but it bites strongly. The power is seen from the Le Mans livery scratches, which are truly phenomenal and identical. The selection of the alloy wheels was very handsome, coupled with a band of rubber tires bearing Eagle Goodyears.

After the Hyperpole of the 24h of Le Mans, Ferrari will start from P1 and P2 into the race on saturday. Toyota was more than a second slower than the fastest Ferrari and is only starting from P3 and P5. Also the #3 Cadillac had to retire 5 minutes before the end of the Hyperpole because there was a fire on the car, but I think they should be able to repair the car for the race on Saturday. Here is the full starting order:

Starting order for the 24h of Le Mans 2023:

#50 Ferrari (Hypercar)

#51 Ferrari (Hypercar)

#8 Toyota (Hypercar)

#75 Porsche (Hypercar)

#7 Toyota (Hypercar)

#2 Cadillac (Hypercar)

#5 Porsche (Hypercar)

#3 Cadillac (Hypercar)

#6 Porsche (Hypercar)

#93 Peugeot (Hypercar)

#94 Peugeot (Hypercar)

#708 Glickenhaus (Hypercar)

#311 Action Express Racing (Cadillac) (Hypercar)

#709 Glickenhaus (Hypercar)

#4 Floyd Vanwall Racing (Hypercar)

#38 Hertz JOTA (Porsche) (Hypercar)

#48 Idec Sport (LMP2)

#28 JOTA (LMP2)

#41 WRT (LMP2)

#47 Cool Racing (LMP2)

#63 Prema Racing (LMP2)

#14 Nielsen Racing (LMP2)

#9 Prema Racing (LMP2)

#10 Vector Sport (LMP2)

#45 Algarve Pro Racing (LMP2)

#22 United Autosports (LMP2)

#923 Racing Team Turkey (LMP2)

#65 Panis Racing (LMP2)

#34 Inter Europol Competition (LMP2)

#23 United Autosport (LMP2)

#31 WRT (LMP2)

#37 Cool Racing (LMP2)

#80 AF Corse (LMP2)

#43 DKR Engineering (LMP2)

#35 Alpine (LMP2)

#30 Duqueine Team (LMP2)

#32 Inter Europol Competition (LMP2)

#39 GRAFF Racing (LMP2)

#36 Alpine (LMP2)

#13 Tower Motorsports (LMP2)

#33 Corvette Racing (GTE)

#25 ORT by TF (Aston Martin) (GTE)

#54 AF Corse (Ferrari) (GTE)

#21 AF Corse (Ferrari) (GTE)

#83 Richard Mille AF Corse (Ferrari) (GTE)

#57 Kessel Racing (Ferrari) (GTE)

#55 GMB Motorsport (Aston Martin) (GTE)

#74 Kessel Racing (Ferrari) (GTE)

#77 Dempsey-Proton Racing (Porsche) (GTE)

#86 GR Racing (Porsche) (GTE)

#100 Walkenhorst Motorsport (Ferrari) (GTE)

#85 Iron Dames (Porsche) (GTE)

#60 Iron Lynx (Porsche) (GTE)

#72 TF Sport (Aston Martin) (GTE)

#56 Project 1 (Porsche) (GTE)

#911 Proton Competition (Porsche) (GTE)

#16 Proton Competition (Porsche) (GTE)

#98 Northwest AMR (Aston Martin) (GTE)

#66 JMW Motorsport (Ferrari) (GTE)

#88 Proton Competition (Porsche) (GTE)

#777 D'Station Racing (Aston Martin) (GTE)

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